Form 5 Week 4

Hi Form 5,

Well done on a brilliant debate today. I was really pleased to see such engagement with a complex topic. A bit more teamwork and pushing of your own arguments rather than just focusing on rebuttal will be of benefit in future debates.

This week will start the Wall Street Crash and Great Depression.

I will post a PPT about the Stock market later on, after we play our stock market game.

here is a short BBC podcast with some eyewitness accounts of the 1929 Crash: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00z9sqt

And here is a link to the spreadsheet for our term-long stock market game using the FTSE index. I will post regular updates on our progress.

https://goo.gl/qJrx6a

Here is the NYT story on connected communities: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/19/upshot/facebook-county-friendships.html

Homework this week:

Please complete the first two activity sheets on The Great Depression section of your workbooks - the multiple choice questions on the Hugh brogan source, and the graph/table analysis.

Due next Tuesday.